A 87.5-kg man pushes a crate 5.5 m up along a ramp that makes an angle...

 

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A 87.5-kg man pushes a crate 5.5 m up along a ramp that makes an angle of 15 with the horizontal. He exerts a force of 510 N on the crate parallel to the ramp and moves it at a constant speed. Calculate the work, in joules, that the man performs to cause the crate and himself to move up the ramp. F A 87.5-kg man pushes a crate 5.5 m up along a ramp that makes an angle of 15 with the horizontal. He exerts a force of 510 N on the crate parallel to the ramp and moves it at a constant speed. Calculate the work, in joules, that the man performs to cause the crate and himself to move up the ramp. F

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